Ephesians 4:1

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Summary

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Beseech

Vocation

General references

1 Corinthians 16:14

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

Beseech

I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, which is your reasonable service.

I beseech you therefore, be ye followers of me.

Therefore we are embassadors for Christ, as though God were intreating by us: we beseech you, in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

We then, as fellow-labourers, do also exhort you, not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Now I Paul myself, who when present am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you, intreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ,

Ye know how though infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you at first.

Yet out of love I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also the prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires,

And now I beseech thee, Kuria, (not as writing a new commandment to thee, but that which we had from the beginning) that we may love one another.

Vocation

There is one body and one Spirit, as ye are also called in one hope of your calling;

And we know, that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose.

But one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and reaching forth unto the things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

To this end we pray always for you, that our God would make you worthy of this calling, and fulfill in you all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power;

not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus, before the world began;

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high-priest of our profession,

Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing, but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are called to this, to inherit a blessing.

Now the God of all grace, who hath called us by Christ Jesus to his eternal glory, after ye have suffered a while, himself shall perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

As his divine power hath given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, thro' the knowledge of him that hath called us by glory and virtue,

General references

Let all your affairs be done in love.

So that my bonds in Christ have been made manifest in the whole palace, and to all others: